Becoming Steve Jobs
by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
The counter-portrait to Isaacson's: how the impulsive, cruel young Jobs became the leader who built Apple's second act, through the NeXT and Pixar years. Schlender knew him for twenty-five years, and the book is about growth, which makes it more useful than the better-known biography.
Read it if…
you want to understand how Jobs changed, not just what he did.
Skip it if…
you want the full life; Isaacson is more complete.
Three things you will actually use
- Leaders can change; the wilderness is where it happens.
- Taste is developed, not innate.
- Learn to delegate the things you are worst at.
Do this first
Read the NeXT chapters for what twelve years in the wilderness taught him about management.
Our verdict
How Jobs changed.
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